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Book club.

I've never gotten to do the spooky thing before.

That's not true.

I've probably done it every October.

But I don't remember it, because why would I remember doing something cringy?

Although, as they say, only the cringe are free.

That shouldn't be our tagline here at Cool Zun Media Book Club, but it kind of could be, except actually I would say that this week's story isn't cringy at all. It's just good. I'm the one who's cringy. I'm your host, Margar Kiljoy. This is the only book club where you don't have to do the reading because I do it for you. There might be other book clubs where you don't have to do the reading because I do it for you.

There might be other book clubs where you don't have to do the reading because someone else does it for you, but it's not this one.

Also, sometimes I resent my own choice in using that tagline because while having a story read to you is different than reading, it's like not so fundamentally different than reading. I listen to a lot of audiobooks and I tell people I read those books because you know

what? Every single word of them went into my brain and what is reading besides having words go into

your brain. Anyway, we're going to do some horror stories this month.

And this is one of them.

Okay, one more time.

That's what you're supposed to do, spooky.

Okay, first up this week, we have a story called Kushduca, and it's by Matilda Zeller,

and it first appeared in the 2023 collection, Never Whistle at at night in indigenous dark fiction anthology.

It is a creature feature and a slasher, centering around a figure, the Kushduca, which is common

in the folklore of people native to so-called Alaska. And as for what the creature is, I will

let Matilda explain that to you in a second in the story.

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